Would YOU live in a steampunk universe if you could?

[P. Aloysius Regnad]

      Just a general question.

      The only "rule" is that you can set up that particular universe any way you want, within the broad boundaries of steampunk.

      For example, my CR&A universe has everything I would need, like electric lights, indoor plumbing, a growing system of roads (some of which are even paved with concrete, while the rest are crushed gravel, and regularly maintained by, you guessed it, steam rollers!), and even clean burning fuel, in the form of plentiful natural gas (At least in The United States).  (I did figure a way to make petroleum scarce, and thus expensive, so it's pretty much out of bounds there.)  There are even wireless telephones, courtesy of Nathan B. Stubblefield.  (Look him up.  He, and his inventions are real.)  I'd definitely live there (it's 1905 - 1908 there now) if I could.  It's a place I'd feel more at home in than, well, here!

      So, would anyone else choose a steampunk world to live in?

[Rev. Demetrius Hunt]

Depends on which universe. Many seem to be quite perilous.

[P. Aloysius Regnad]

      "This" universe continues to deteriorate.  For instance, my mail is seldom delivered before sundown these days.  I guess my building is at the bottom of whatever schedule my local post office uses.  I say that because their lovely interweb site regularly claims that my deliveries have been out since no later than 8 hours, meaning someone's been driving them around for better than half a day!  And that STINKS for me.  When I was a kid, the mail was delivered between 13, and 15 hours EVERY day, except at Christmas time, when it MIGHT be 30 to 90 minutes later.  And I lived in a semi-rural area, where the mail was delivered by a woman in a station wagon, not some fancy Post Office trucks and vans like they use where I live now.  I'd rather have it come the next day at a reasonable time, instead of having to wait, and wait, and WAIT!   Bah!

              (Nope, still nothing here, so this rant gets posted!)

[Captain Mutanis]

I've always wondered if I'm in an alternate universe. My post office is in sight yet my entire no matter where the trains, hot air balloons or steamboats take me, my mail never arrives before 3 in the afternoon.